The Huawei ban is just the start...
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·2020-05-05
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look i'm not going to stand here and tell you that we're out of tech news because
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we're not there's no reason i'd say
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some of you may be tired of hearing about huawei but the scandal rages on
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while the current controversy surrounds an american executive order banning
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business with huawei some uk companies
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have boarded the bandwagon ee and vodafone two of britain's largest
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telecom companies have dropped huawei devices from their 5g launch plans and
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british chip maker ARM has reportedly sent a memo to its staff with
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instructions to suspend all business with the chinese company this move could
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potentially prove to be the most disastrous since huawei's in-house kirin
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processors are based on armed designs for which it pays license fees on the
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software front things are looking a bit more promising huawei has said that
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they're working with google on ways to mitigate the damage and the company is
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reportedly making plans to debut its alternative os meant to replace Android
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this fall there might even be legal measures that huawei could take in the us to argue the
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ban is unconstitutional or otherwise illegal most coverage of the huawei
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scandal though is focusing on what it means for huawei but there could also be
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very negative effects for american companies like Intel qualcomm microsoft
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and google who will be losing out on revenue they would otherwise collect
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from huawei for licensing and component sales it all feels a bit like
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overprotective parents not letting their kids play with each other if those kids
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were also spying on the other kids toys and like collecting all their personal
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kid data okay it's not a perfect analogy
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AMD should call their upcoming CPU ryzen troll ripper yeah because if recent
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leaks are to be leaved they might be up to their silly
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naming shenanigans again this pr manager for graphics card oem sapphire has told
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the chinese press that AMD will soon be revealing two new gpus based on the navi
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architecture the avatar architecture the navi
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the first one will have a full enabled xt chip with performance greater than
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NVIDIA's rtx 2070 for 499 us the second
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card will be a cut down version with performance greater than NVIDIA's rtx
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2060 for 3.99 us but the real kicker
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here is that some rumors claim these cards will be called the art x 3080 and
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rx 3070 respectively and that's just
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what that's wrong that's wrong AMD you've got some hard
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thinking to do if this is true it's unclear when we'll see these gpus as
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some rumors point to a launch at computex next week while AMD themselves
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have already indicated that they'll present new products at their new
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horizon gaming event at e3 in june either way it's not that far away and it
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looks like we might be set for some big eye rolls give me a break here oh god
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they got stuck up there and speaking of revolutionary new
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hardware apple has quietly refreshed their macbook pro line with Intel 8th
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gen and 9th gen processors complete with eight core options the company says the
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new additions make macbook pro the world's best pro notebook which i'm sure
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is true for some people alongside the upgrade for apple's laptops comes a
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repair program for those same laptops which have suffered from the flex gate
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display backlight issue and problems with the butterfly keyboard design
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they're sticking with that hey apple says they've tweaked the keyboard a
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second time to try to fix it and third time's the charm so there's there
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definitely won't be any problems with this one swear to god it's definitely
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not the general design that's the problem people just aren't using the
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right or something yeah you know you're supposed to be a barista using it yeah
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then it works
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google talked big about privacy at i o 2019 but the company just disclosed that
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a small number of its g suite customers had their passwords stored in plain text
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on the company's servers the blunder was caused by a faulty
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password recovery feature implemented in 2005 that's a long time ago which has
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since been removed and there's no evidence of improper access to the
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affected passwords so the issue has apparently been fixed and google says
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no consumer gmail accounts were affected but do we believe them
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dewey i'm switching a huawei mail that's smart
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the new Windows 10 may update is rolling
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out although as part of microsoft's new cautious update strategy you probably
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won't get it unless you specifically go check for updates and choose to install
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it the update includes a new light theme
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dark theme is so passe a new light theme the sandbox virtual
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machine tool separated cortana and search functions new features for the
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xbox game bar you ought to be 21 to enter
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and most importantly the ability to pause
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updates so you have to update to avoid future
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updates you were so close microsoft tesla recently also updated its
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autopilot software to allow lane changes without driver input so consumer reports
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did a little testing end they were a little uh unimpressed
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claiming tesla vehicles with the new update cut off other cars did not react
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to brake lights or turn signals and improperly passed cars in the wrong lane
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that's that's everything wrong that you can do they described using the new
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system as being like supervising a child or a nascent artificial intelligence
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oh i didn't know elon musk was in the car for these tests boom roasted oh i
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see what you're saying there that's extraneous now the epic game store's problems persist
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with reports that users are being blocked from purchasing too many games
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in quick succession oh what a nice problem to have
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of course people are doing this because the store doesn't have a shopping cart
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system like steam where you can buy multiple games at once and not only that
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a reddit user reported that after requesting a summary of the personal
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information that epic has on them the company accidentally sent it to another
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random person they apologized and the random person
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swore they deleted the info so it's all good
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no it's not epic how many epic fails can we endure
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we're just humans several more probably and ford's vision
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of the future of package delivery involves real-life pit droids from the
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star wars prequels it's a lot of peace okay not exactly but they do have some
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similarities to the digit robot which would arrive at a person's home folded
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up in a van with a package the robot then unfolds itself picks up the package
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delivers it to your door and then jumps back in the car and takes off like i
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bought out of hell this would be a great option for robot delivery particularly
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in the nicest white picket fence neighborhoods where riley grew up
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pushed over and stolen or at least invited to tag football games
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and it's time to push over this episode right right over the edge into the abyss
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down into the void where my soul resides it's over folks
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